I am not overconfident.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

Berlusconi is no longer fit to lead our country.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

I am not overconfident.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

Black women dont have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

My original business plan? To work hard, get 300 clients in the Rochester area, and live happily ever after.

I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

On learning: If you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

Everything happens for a reason. The daily tragedies and misfortunes are all meaningful events leading toward an ideal conclusion. With that in mind there probably isnt really any meaningless misfortune.

American Idol has taken over my whole life.

A boat may stay in water but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world but the world should not live within him.